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Marilyn Monroe Fought An Uphill Battle To Get Cast In All About Eve 20th Century Studios By Shae Sennett/Aug. 25, 2022 7:42 pm EST Before she was starring in the biggest feature films of her day, Marilyn Monroe had a minor breakout role in a major motion picture. Her performance as Miss Casswell in the Academy Award-winning film “All About Eve” gained her some recognition in Hollywood, but it wasn’t an easy part to land for the young actress....

Sigourney Weaver Playing Her Own Character’s Kid In Avatar: The Way Of Water Was Pretty Distracting 20th Century Studios By Jenna Busch/Dec. 19, 2022 1:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Avatar: The Way of Water.” James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” is here, close to a decade and a half after the first film. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) are raising a passel of kids, including Kiri (Sigourney Weaver), the daughter of Dr....

Steven Spielberg’s Favorite Goonies Memory Came At The Expense Of Richard Donner Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 30, 2022 5:47 pm EST Few movies capture what kids are really like the way that “The Goonies” does. Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on how you look at it. Released in 1985, director Richard Donner’s adventure comedy film centers on a group of kids who reside in the “Goon Docks” of Astoria, Oregon (hence their self-anointed nickname, “The Goonies”)....

Superhero Bits: Black Adam Is Coming To SDCC, The Smallville Podcast & More Square Enix By Ryan Scott/July 7, 2022 5:39 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The Boys Scene That Briefly Ruined Pancakes For Chace Crawford Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 24, 2022 12:07 pm EST Generally speaking, it’s sound advice to never take work home with you. That advice should probably be considered a requirement for the cast and crew of “The Boys.” The superhero satire has never once pulled its punches from depicting some of the grossest, most disturbing, and abjectly violent imagery to grace (curse?...

Saturday Night (1954) Masterworks Broadway Skipping over Stephen Sondheim’s nonprofessional college musicals, “Saturday Night” is a peculiar case to kickstart this chronological list. Our list will often denote significant premiere years for each musical, but their timeline placement might be blurred by historical factors. Circumstances denied “Saturday Night” its original Broadway premiere, and thus Sondheim’s professional debut, when lead producer Lemuel Ayers died. Sondheim fondly reflected on “Saturday Night” as his “baby pictures....

The Daily Stream: Best Home Cook Is Soothing When You’ve Run Through The Other Mary Berry Shows BBC By Jenna Busch/July 9, 2022 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Best Home Cook” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Did you run out of episodes of “The Great British Baking Show?...

Bryan Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane NBC Developed by Bryan Fuller, NBC’s “Mockingbird Lane” re-imagined “The Munsters” as more of an outright horror comedy series that fully embraced the idea of the titular family being, well, monsters. For example, in this iteration, the vampire Grandpa Munster (Eddie Izzard) had a proper blood lust and didn’t blink twice about the idea of killing Steve (Cheyenne Jackson), a kindly widower and scout master to his grandson Eddie (Mason Cook), to harvest his heart for the Munsters’ Frankenstein Monster-style patriarch Herman (Jerry O’Connell)....

The $200,000 payday Warner Bros. The $4.6 million budget of “The Train Robbers” translates to about $30 million in 2022 dollars. It was, essentially, a mid-budget movie. Wayne’s star had fallen, and his salary was only guaranteed to be $200,000 — about $1.3 million, adjusted. Wayne was also set to get a percentage of the gross. This relatively low payout was a declarative statement. Warner Bros. had little faith in the picture and in the star....

Why The Ring Is A Rare Horror Remake That Strengthens Its Predecessor DreamWorks Pictures By Erin Brady/Oct. 18, 2022 9:00 am EST Western remakes of Japanese horror movies almost always miss the mark. More often than not, they are a shell of their original selves, sanding down deep allegories or cultural differences in order to appeal to the widest general audience. The vast majority of the time, it actually ends up backfiring significantly as this broader scope comes across as more pandering than anything....

Working With Robin Williams In Jumanji Took Some Getting Used To For David Alan Grier Sony/TriStar Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 15, 2022 11:32 am EST In the past few years, the “Jumanji” film franchise has undergone a significant transformation with its wildly successful reboot “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and its sequel “Jumanji: The Next Level.” While both films fared well at the box office, it’s impossible to forget that the original 1995 film is the most magical of them all....

Happy Endings ABC/YouTube The superficial similarities between “Happy Endings” and “Friends” are impossible to ignore: Both shows involve six friends (three male, three female), and the pilot episode for both shows opens with a wedding in which the bride leaves the groom at the altar. In “Happy Endings,” this leaves Dave (Zachary Knighton) devastated when fiancée Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) bails on their wedding. The ex-couple’s friend group consists of A-type, overachieving spouses Brad (Damon Wayans, Jr....

5 Times James Cameron Literally Almost Died For His Work Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images By Lee Adams/Aug. 12, 2022 9:58 am EST There have been plenty of difficult directors over the years, from Hitchcock pelting Tippi Hedren with live avians in “The Birds” to Kubrick and his hundreds of takes on “The Shining.” Sam Peckinpah infuriated Charlton Heston so much that the actor brandished a saber at him, while William Friedkin fired real guns on the set of “The Exorcist” to keep his actors suitably on edge....

Bruce Willis Played A Crucial Part In Getting Michael Clarke Duncan His Green Mile Role Warner Bros. By Travis Yates/Aug. 21, 2022 9:00 pm EST Bringing the literary work of Stephen King to life on the big screen is incredibly difficult. King’s novels are layered with complex characters, unique locations, and downright bizarre stories. But Frank Darabont seems to have found the right formula. The director responsible for “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Mist” also brought one of King’s most impactful works to life while earning a Best Picture Oscar nomination....

Clips Round-Up: Cave Rescue Trailer, Ali & Ava Tells A Midlife Love Story & More! [Exclusive] Lionsgate By Max Evry/July 19, 2022 1:50 pm EST (Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: Cave Rescue Ali & Ava The Nan Movie One Moment Infrared Cave Rescue Trailer First up we have a trailer debut for Lionsgate’s “Cave Rescue,” a thriller based on the real-life Tham Luang cave rescue incident from 2018....

Could The Live-Action My Hero Academia Movie Finally Be The Moment Anime Conquers Hollywood? Crunchyroll By Adam Wescott/Dec. 15, 2022 8:04 am EST 2022 has been another big year for anime and manga in the United States. This fall’s “Chainsaw Man” anime is earning rave reviews. “Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO” earned $32 million worldwide in its first week. Netflix’s “Cyberpunk Edgerunners” convinced folks to give the messy “Cyberpunk 2077” another shot, rocketing the game up the Steam rankings....

Taking the fight to the next level Crunchyroll During an interview for the 2023 Preview issue of Total Film, Michael B. Jordan spoke about wanting to use his passion for anime as an influence on “Creed III,” as outlandish as the idea might seem at first. In truth, for as grounded and gritty as they are, the “Creed” films also utilize the type of stylized visuals (like slow-motion) and impactful editing typical of anime....

James Bond, Take the Wheel What happens when /Film’s @Ethan_Anderton is invited to recreate the car chase from #NoTimeToDie with the film’s stunt driving team? It leaves him shaken AND stirred. pic.twitter.com/J2H4Iasl5t— /Film (@slashfilm) December 21, 2021 On the Jaguar Land Rover Limited headquarters land in Coventry, England, there’s an off-road course used to test the capabilities of their vehicles. In this case, Mark Higgins tore through the mud in a Land Rover Defender with me laughing nervously in the passenger seat....

Here’s The First Look At David Tennant As Poisoned Russian Defector Alexander Litvinenko ITVX By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 7, 2022 6:58 pm EST David Tennant has a lot more on his plate than his return to the world of “Doctor Who,” as ITVX revealed in the first look at the British actor from the upcoming miniseries, “Litvinenko.” The image is a recreation of the internationally famous photo of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in a University College Hospital bed shortly before his passing, taken in the midst of one of the most dangerous criminal investigations in the history of London’s Metropolitan Police....

House Of Darkness Director Neil LaBute Doesn’t Mind Cheating Audiences [Exclusive Interview] Saban Films By Jack Giroux/Sept. 8, 2022 3:43 pm EST Neil LaBute is no stranger to horror. As he says, some audiences have called his infamous work from the ’90s, including “In The Company of Men” and “Your Friends & Neighbors,” basically horror movies. LaBute often portrays the worst in people and crafts uncomfortable experiences, making his instincts seem just right for the genre....